@DaveK 72958 wrote:
I’d love to see a post about life and bikes in the great white North sometime. What’s different, better, worse… I’ve heard a lot of good things about biking up there.
It’s a really awesome bike metro area. Minneapolis (where we live) has an amazing park system with great bike lanes that get plowed when they do the snow emergency routes, St. Paul (the “Twin” east of the Mississippi) is also well developed but isn’t as good with snow removal. The biggest difference I’ve seen between here and DC, during my limited outdoor riding and observation from seeing people on the trails and greenway, is that it’s much more utilitarian (i.e. beater bikes for winter, fat bikes) and no plastic bikes or ELITE douchebags (they’re probably hibernating). There are also a lot of “invisible cyclists” here that you don’t really see in DC as a result of the affluence of that metro area, but everyone is civil and chilled out.
I’m not riding outdoors this winter but once March comes around I’m going to start trying to ride every day for at least 10 miles. I’m hoping that I can drop enough weight over the spring and summer so I can get a fat bike for next fall and winter (I’m too heavy right now and they don’t make 48h hubs), but I’m planning to do a ton of riding this spring, summer, and early fall. I’m still working on the documentary I mentioned to some of you earlier this year, so I’ll be shooting a ton of b-roll when I do get outdoors.
